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(Pictured: Dr. William Jenks, Department Chair, Dr. Dan Wiederin, awardee, and Dr. Beate Schmittmann, Dean of the College of LAS)

The Department of Chemistry is thrilled to award its 2022 Alumni Award to Dr. Dan Wiederin.

Congratulations to Foroogh Bahrami (Dr. Zhao's group) who has been awarded a Best Oral Presentation Prize (Second class) in the recent International Symposium on Molecular Imprinting Technology for Biomedical Applications in September.

Congratulations to Dr. Theresa Windus, Dr. Robbyn Anand, Dr. Yulia Zaikina, Dr. Jared Anderson, and Adam Wade!

Kirill Kovnir was recognized for exemplary performance and scholarship in research.

Congratulations to our graduate award winners!

Left: Chip Nataro, Right: Mahdi Abu-Omar 

Julia Zaikina was invited to give a virtual presentation about reserach in her group at Periodic TableTalks organized by ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry.

November 17 12 pm (PDT), 2 pm (Central time)

Karen Nordell Pearson, an award-winning educator, researcher and educational-outreach expert, will receive the Outstanding Alumni Award from the Department of Chemistry at a ceremony on Thursday, October 21, 2021 in Ames, Iowa.

Congratulations to Sungu Kim, Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, and Robbyn Anand, whose paper was selected by JACS in a virtual issue of outstanding work published in 2020 where the PI was an early career researcher:  https://pubs.acs.org/pag

Vincenzo Venditti, professor of chemistry is the recipient of the 2021 Trapp Innovation award. The award provides funding to a faculty member who is pursuing new or unique research in chemistry or the physical sciences.

Arthur Winter, professor of chemistry at Iowa State University, is determined to understand how bonds between molecules can be broken with light.

Congratulations to Milad Zangiabadi, of the Zhao Group, on his first place finish in the 2021 I&EC Division Graduate Student Award Symposium! 

Alex Leffel, a chemistry senior, uses supercomputers to build a large database of highly accurate chemical data for transition metals.

Congratulations to Robbyn Anand, who found out she will be the 2021 Analytical Chemistry Innovator award from the journal Analytical Chemistry.

Well done and congrats!

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